World of Warcraft

[Solver]

I intend to also never play another MMORPG. It's not so much a thing I have against WoW, I've just come to understand the toxic nature of those games.

Says a guy who's addicted to Civ .

[Harovan]

There's no comparison between a MMOG and a TBS in that matter. Both can be addictive, true, but a TBS comes in smaller units. A Civ game - even the biggest one - is ready in a few days or weeks, after which you decide whether you have a break or start a new one. A MMOG however evolves endlessly. If you're a "community type", chances are high that you'll continue to play just to not lose contact to your peers, not to lose on equipment and skills. Most MMOGs are equivalent to big chatrooms in the first place, and action games in the second.

[lightblue]

Lert's just say that I have to congratulate Blizzard on a good roll out of the expansion. No real gamebreaking bugs, servers haven't died etc. DAoC was far worse for that.

Hellfire Citadel Ramparts was a right doddle though, but I replaced another few BWL epix..

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker


Do you own a phone? If you stop paying your provider, would you expect them to keep routing your calls?

And if you stop paying your electric bill, your computer won't work and none of that software will be very useful.

Face it: you are buying a service which costs a not insignificant amount of money for them to provide you each month. It's absurd to think that they should charge you once and provide it to you forever.

As they would probably say on the WoW forums "omfg pwned!!!!!one!!!eleven!!"

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by Blake


I sold my account, when you beat a strategic retreat, be sure to burn the bridges!

Actually I had an on-line friend offer to buy me Burning Crusade and pay the subscription. He seems to find it hard to believe that I'm REALLY not ever playing WoW again. I'd honestly rather punch myself in the face, it'd be more stimulating than WoW, better exercise too.

I intend to also never play another MMORPG. It's not so much a thing I have against WoW, I've just come to understand the toxic nature of those games.

Ah ok.

I kinda know what you mean - whenever I give up MMOs I think hmm can't believe you played that for x months etc. But then I want to play again after a while.

All this talk of the x-pack makes me want to run out and buy it, though I want to wait at least a few weeks to let everything settle down.

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by lightblue
Lert's just say that I have to congratulate Blizzard on a good roll out of the expansion. No real gamebreaking bugs, servers haven't died etc. DAoC was far worse for that.

Nice, I was expecting carnage.

Originally posted by lightblue
Hellfire Citadel Ramparts was a right doddle though, but I replaced another few BWL epix..

[vee4473]

well, i'm liking it. Outland is nice eye candy.

2 observations so far:


1 - The quest rewards are very nice. Seemingly much more valuable for the level than original wow.

2 - The respawn rates are crazy. I think I read about a new dynamic respawn rate that takes into account how many people are in a zone or how fast mobs are going down, something like that, and makes them pop quicker as a result so that you don't have to wait like originally. I barely get one mob down before 2 more respawn behind me. Kind of exciting.

[Nostromo]

I cancelled my subscription and uninstalled the game. Vade retro WoW!

[Harovan]

What? Unproportional nice quest rewards in an expansion pack? Now there's a surprise! I wonder why they're doing this.

[vee4473]

i should note that i had no epics going in, so they were nice for me..
lots of +20 and over stats too.

[Quillan]

I recall that sort of stuff with every EQ expansion. The people who were high enough level and well enough equipped to do upper end content in the new expansion would tromp through the new lands, racking up on great gear. After a week or so, things would be taken down for "balancing", to reappear shortly thereafter in a newly nerfed state, either with lower stats or much lower frequency or much higher difficulty of acquisition. However, those who already had the super gear got to keep it. I guess it wasn't that unbalancing.

[DrSpike]

Expansions are always an opportunity to close gear gaps. It's just Blizzard have taken it to the extreme given their playerbase, with some greens equal to tier 2 epix.

[Asmodean]

Back in october, I deleted my main, sharded all his gear, and left the game. Now that the Burning Crusade has come out, I feel the itch again, however.

So I have renewed my subscription, and asked the GM's to reinstate Hargir, as my char is called (my only level 60 - over 130 days total played on him).

I also asked the GM to give me back my stuff. He asked me to create another ticket for that. Fine...I did. After 2 hours, the status of the ticket was: "Your ticket has been escaled" Cool, I thought - at least they are taking my request seriously. Now, some 28 hours later, the status is still the same

So escalated=forgotten? LOL

Anyway, I have done some research into the matter, and as it turns out, it probably WILL be possible for me to get my stuff back. However, as Blizzard's policy is on the matter, it is going to cost me. They will, so my research tells me, ask me to refund the worth of the shards/nexuses in gold. Given that the take when I sharded my stuff was around 50 nexus crystals and around 30 large brilliant shards, that will be approximately 1200 gold as prices are on my server currently.

But on the other hand...what are guildies for

Let's see what happens.

Asmodean

[DrSpike]

1200 gold is small beans. You should have no trouble getting that.

[Solver]

Hang on, how do quests work in this game? Given that there are tons of users, I assume each character can receive & do a quest independently of any and all other characters?